Cappadocian

[Geoffrey SUMMERS]

Could anyone please comment on the Cappadocian language. It was still
spoken in Strabo's time and probably well into the Byzantine period
(according to Stephen Mitchell's Anatolia: land of men and gods). So far
as I know there are no extant inscriptions or texts.

Also, could anyone please tell me if there is any evidence that the
language was ever written.

I rather presume, for want of a better idea, that Cappadocian was some
sort of late Luwian. If not, what could it have been?

Geoff

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Geoffrey SUMMERS
Dept. of Political Science & Public Administration,
Middle East Technical University,
Ankara TR-06531, TURKEY.

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